'Big breakfast' study finds some favor

9:40 PM,
Nov. 9, 2013

Written by

Mary Longo

You may have heard something recently about research showing that eating a big breakfast is good for people with diabetes. There was news coverage of a relatively small study reported at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting in late September.

The findings were intriguing. Participants in the study's "big breakfast" group ended up with blood sugar level reductions three times greater than those in the "small breakfast" group. About one-third of the big breakfast participants were able to reduce their daily diabetic medication within the study period of three ...